Network World

Removing duplicate characters from a string on Linux with awk

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...
TechRepublic

How to use awk to select data from commands and scripts

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Ars Technica

Linux/BSD Command Line 101: Using awk, sed, and grep in the Terminal

Arcane syntax? The parts of Perl's syntax that have given it a bad name either come from it's recycling the syntax of tools like Awk, variable names that I was familiar with from the same tools or ...
Network World

2 ways to remove duplicate lines from Linux files

The first command we’ll examine in this post is a very unusual awk command that systematically removes every line in the file that is encountered more than once. It leaves the first instance of the ...
Linux Journal

Real Programming with AWK

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that real programs can be and are written using the AWK programming language. When I first started working with UNIX, going back 10 years now, no one I ...